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    The document contains summaries of three poems: 1) "Shall I Compare Thee" by Shakespeare compares the beauty of a young man to a summer's day, but notes the man's beauty will last longer and cannot be destroyed by time. 2) "On Killing a Tree" encourages fully completing any work, using the metaphor of ensuring a tree is completely killed rather than leaving the job half done. 3) "Asleep in the Valley" describes a young soldier peacefully sleeping forever in a sunny green valley, indicated by the two holes in his body.

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    The document contains summaries of three poems: 1) "Shall I Compare Thee" by Shakespeare compares the beauty of a young man to a summer's day, but notes the man's beauty will last longer and cannot be destroyed by time. 2) "On Killing a Tree" encourages fully completing any work, using the metaphor of ensuring a tree is completely killed rather than leaving the job half done. 3) "Asleep in the Valley" describes a young soldier peacefully sleeping forever in a sunny green valley, indicated by the two holes in his body.

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    Shall I compare thee

    “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s day?” by William


    Shakespeare is a famous sonnet where he compares the beauty
    of a young man, his friend to the day of the summer. But he is
    not sure about the appropriateness of this comparison because of
    at least three reasons. Firstly, the day of the summer is lovely but
    the beauty of the youth is more enjoyable. He is more temperate,
    gentler, and more restrained than the day of the summer. Rough
    winds shake the sweet buds of the flower. Secondly, summer
    stays a very short period. The beauty of the youth will live for a
    long. Thirdly the bright sunlight of the summer which would be
    dimmed is compared. But the beauty of his friend is compared to
    eternal summer which shall not fade. Death and Time cannot
    destroy the beauty of the youth. He immortalizes his friend
    through the eternal lines of his poetry.
    The poet wants to say that every mortal object of nature would
    lose its beauty either by chance or by nature’s changing course.
    It is predestined. Every object or person undergoes a decline in
    beauty with the passage of time. Rough winds in summer destroy
    the buds which adorn every tree in May. Again, the clouds dim
    the gold complexion of the sun. So, nothing is permanent in
    nature.

    On Killing a Tree
    The poet conveys the idea through the poem of the process of
    killing or cutting a tree. The poem seems to be contrary to our
    common belief that more and more trees should be planted. But
    here the poet lays stress on the implementation of the effective
    cutting of the trees. The message that the poet wants to convey
    through this poem is that we should always do complete work at
    the time of starting it. Some people are in habit of leaving the
    work half done, while they think that they have done the work
    perfectly. But in the end, they find that it was nothing but an
    illusion. So, the poet wants us to finish the work completely
    whether the work is of the killing of the tree apart the poet wants
    us that we should do our optimum efforts and we should put
    ourselves whole heartily leaving no stone unturned.
    The title of the poem, “On Killing a Tree” clearly shows Gieve
    Patel’s concern for nature. The tree is man’s benevolent friend
    and such friends are destroyed by man’s cruelty and greed. In an
    ironic tone, the poet narrates the whole process of killing a tree.
    A sudden blow of a knife, hacking, and chopping cannot destroy
    the tree. It has to be uprooted from the earth. Then the roots are
    exposed to the sun and air for scorching, choking, and withering.
    Finally, the task of killing a tree is executed after a long process
    of torture and pain. The title is ironic to mankind in the sense of
    man’s foolishness and recklessness. The poet wants to convey a
    message through the poem to his readers to be sympathetic to
    nature. Hence the title is appropriate.

    Asleep in the Valley


    Arthur Rimbaud has described in the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’
    that a slow stream flows through a small green valley. The sun
    shines from the mountaintop, and the sun’s rays fill the valley
    with light. A very young soldier is lying on the ground open-
    mouthed. He is lying on the green grass. His feet are among the
    flowers. There is a gentle innocent smile on the face like a child.
    Nature keeps him warm. The humming insects don’t disturb his
    rest. He sleeps peacefully in the sunlight keeping his one hand on
    his breast. But there are two red holes in his body that depict
    that he is in eternal sleep. The poet gives a description of a small
    green valley through which a slow stream flows. The sun shines
    from the mountaintop and sun rays fill the valley with bright light.
    A soft thick layer of fern has grown.

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